I’ve eaten chicken feet, haggis, blood pudding, sisig, century egg, durian, dinuguan, tripe and tongue tacos, frog legs, snails, alligator, whole softshell crab, and probably a few more delights that I ought to remember. The only one I absolutely cannot stomach is the century egg.
How was the century egg prepared? I knew some guys in high school that decided to buy random stuff at the asian grocery store and they ate the century egg as if it was a regular boiled egg then threw up. I’ve had it in small pieces with congee and that was pretty good though.
I’d used it in a recipe to try and make congee, inspired by a pop-up in Seattle called Secret Congee. Theirs is good as hell, but my first try deterred me entirely from that questline.
Sisig mentioned rahhh 🇵🇭🔥💯
We’re a “barrel man on the mantle” type of family, you know?
I dunno what that means but I’m guessing it’s not good. You also did mention Dinuguan which I like also.
Matter of taste I guess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty)
I like dinuguan and sisig, but I’ve definitely had plates of sisig I’ve regretted.
Oh, that 😂 I’m so ashamed I didn’t get it straight away even though I’m Filipino 😅
What type of sisig did you have? It’s traditionally made with pig’s head but if you don’t want that, you can’t go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks 👍🏽
It was pig’s ear and other head stuff, but the real problem was that it was about half as fresh as it should have been. I only mentioned sisig in this post as a way of listing all the gnarly stuff I’ve liked over the years to compare it to the one thing I just can’t handle (except as an ingredient in one dish ever apparently). Little quiet karaoke place with no customers that used to be in Seattle, back when I lived stateside. Not surprised to find out that it’s gone, they needed a different crowd.
I had a hunch it’s the way it’s cooked, should always be fresh.
The crab poboy sandwich with the legs hanging out of it was as a staple of my childhood, whenever we went to New Orleans I wanted one.
Alligator we can get here but it’s unremarkable in flavor.
Anything I’ve bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -
That’s straight up disrespectful
Looks like a euro burger on a US bun.
Did they scrape that off the bottom of one of the seats?
The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples
Relevant daily game: scrandle.
Camel fat. It tastes like how a camel smells.
Never smelt one but I assume really sweaty?
Musky and hairy, like a slightly damp dog that’s been out in the hot sun, but muskier.
My mouth is watering. No wait, those are tears of sadness.
I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
Esters I bet it’s rich in esters
Probably. I know it’s a pheromone and is much more concentrated in males making them more valuable/desired
My question for folks, though…:
When faced with eating a giant water bug for the first time, would you bite the head side first or the butt side first?I struggled with this decision…
ETA: (for reference)
Ok…it’s not a competition…but you win…
Is that someone people actually eat?
It is popular in a lot of Southeast Asia. You can even buy commercial chili pastes with the essence of water bug in them.
Balut actually tastes pretty good chicken and egg. Even though it was a duck egg. But yah I could never do it again.
Giant water bug? I love those things!
Nettle stew. Yes, it’s good for you. It tastes like cow shit to me.
Preface: All seafood makes me violently ill. I wish it weren’t so, but here we are.
While living in Switzerland we went to an ikea and found what I thought to be spreadable cheese in a toothpaste type tube. For reference lots of stuff over there comes in those types of tubes. Why not cheese?
I was so excited to get home and immediately tore the cap off and squeezed a giant dollop of what my mouth expected to be something like cheez whiz.
NOPE. NOPE FUCKING NOPE. It was some kind of fish paste with roe…
I puked for like 30 minutes straight and couldn’t get that taste out of my mouth until we found some kirsch liqueur that I also hate, but whose taste will overpower anything.
Picture related: The culprit
In their defense, it literally says “kaviar.”
Oh they have none of the blame! I am a big stupid man who didn’t bother to read it at all.
I had that in Norway, and it is the best shit ever. I’d eat that in such vast quantities if it was as cheap and available here as it is in the Nordics.
This is a staple food in Norway. The Norwegian variant is made with smoked cod roe.
Think the Swedish variant is some kind of freshwater fish? Can’t imagine IKEA will deliver culinary greatness tho’
Apparently none y’all have tried vegemite.
Come at me Australia!
Vegemite tastes like what I imagine the under-side of a cow to taste. It tastes like the smell of road surface. It should have a warning label: Not to be taken orally. It’s clearly a prank that Australia plays with everyone.
Also, I was born in England, but have lived in Australia for 25 years.
Don’t forget Marmite. I can eat that straight out of the bottle. Yum.
🤮
Funny thing is, I hate 98% of all vegetables. They literally make me ill. But I can eat marmite all day long. Go figure.
Vegemite is just brewers yeast post-brew, with added salt. It’s was invented to use up the leftover brewers yeast after brewing beer (well really, Marmite was, and Vegemite was invented as an Australian version of Marmite).
Brits like the taste of beer, Brits made Marmite. Aussies like the taste of beer… Vegemite.
Its ok if yanks don’t like the taste of beer, we get it, we’ve tried your beers.
Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn’t breaded/fried.
LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food. :)
I don’t know about THE worst, but every single thing I ate while at Disney land was pretty fucking bad. I had some barbeque skewers with my dad that were extremely bland, dry, and flavourless. I also had some sort of pink sugary drink that tasted kind of weird. My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
So that’s where my ballsack burger went!
Lentil soup. One kid in the entire school ate it.
How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There’s German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there’s Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there’s Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika …
I have no clue. This was a school lunch 25 years ago, and we usually had really good lunch.
Properly prepared or improperly prepared?
I had a chicken sandwich once that was still pink in the middle… Disgusting!
Chicken sashimi is a thing in Japan, so consider yourself cultured
I’ve had that and it wasn’t bad per se, it was just like… why? None of the benefits of the flavors of other raw meats like steak or horse, just bland and boring
Never had it but I’ve heard it kinda resembles a mild cut of sashimi
Cultured? 🤔
Hey, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Logically, you should be thanking whoever made that for you.
Mother in law fed me pink turkey.
She used an insta pot, loaded to the brim with turkey legs, but she set it on air fryer mode by accident. Mine was on top, so it looked fine, and she didn’t notice the lower ones were raw until I’d already started eating.
Fun night. Didn’t get sick 🤷♂️
Witloof, its this variant of cabbage that is long thin and completely white. And it has one of the most pungent bitter tastes ive ever had the misfortune to discover. The taste is hard to describe, but it’s similar to bee spit,also known as honey, except replace all the love and care that the bees spat with, with pure malice and wasp hatred. It is incredibly sweet, ungodly bitter and has after cooking the texture of overcooked pasta
My mother used to serve it without sauce, ham, or anything else to hide it. Vile.
Balut, it tasted good actually but the physiological hurdles I could only eat one and could not do it again.
Anytime I’ve seen a video of them, they mention the feathers/skull/or juice and I’m thinking “please stfu”
I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I’m sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.
One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.
Cilantro/coentro/coriander
Soap gene eh?
I must be the one weird fucker that thinks it tastes like soap and likes it 😅
Haha weirdo checking in, tastes like soap but it’s like refreshing? Kinda like you can say something minty tastes like toothpaste but it’s not really a bad thing
Would you describe yourself as a masochist?
Nah - it just tastes clean and fresh to me…it’s refreshing
I imagine you also like to wear tight fitting latex or leather and be beaten because “it’s important to be disciplined sometimes”
Just had a pinch . It’s 🆗️ . Do “soap gene” peops taste like really strong soapy taste or some thing ?
Apparently it does taste like soap or lye to them but I can’t give you first hand testimony
First-hand testimony: yes, it does taste of soap. Lick a bar of soap if you want to know what it’s like.
But how do I know soap tastes the same to you as it does me? What if the soap gene actually makes soap taste like cilantro?
I used to eat hand soap when I was a kid because I loved the taste. I also love cilantro. What does any of this mean?
Hmm…not sure. Might be a super power, might not be. Either way, I’m impressed you’re capable of reading and writing still.
Stinky Beetle gene.
It’s actually a myth in my experience, might taste soapy to some folks at first (my experience) but I love coriander and it tastes good now
